The daily report of Rafic Hariri University Hospital on the latest developments on the Corona virus / Covid-19 announced that it has 26 critical cases and two deaths.
The report stated:
– The number of tests conducted inside the hospital laboratories during the past 24 hours: 446.
The number of patients infected with the Corona virus who are in the hospital for follow-up: 42.
The number of suspected cases of infection with the Corona virus during the past 24 hours: 10.
The number of patients hospitalized with recovery cases during the past 24 hours: 2.
– The total number of patients cured from inside the hospital from the beginning to date: 1485 cases of recovery.
The number of cases that were transferred from the intensive care unit to the isolation unit following their condition improved: 1.
The number of critical cases inside the hospital: 26.
Deaths: 2.
He mentioned that the COVID-19 Vaccine Center inside Rafic Hariri University Hospital is at your service from Monday to Friday.
The media office of the Ministry of Public Health issued a statement explaining that “recording cases of double infection, i.e. influenza virus and SARS-CoV2 virus, is expected and not worrisome. This is because double infections with respiratory viruses are normal and can occur.”
The statement added that “in Lebanon, as in the rest of the world, cases of double infection were detected, and according to the routine procedures followed, samples of infected cases are examined at the National Influenza Center, and the Ministry of Public Health sends samples of infected cases to a reference laboratory in the United Kingdom.” To be tested, according to the quality control and strain exchange program, which has been in place since 2015.
